Diaspora

On the unique relationship between two giants of the Jewish literary world

Archivists at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives were surprised to discover a famous figure while examining historic 250 year old records from Vilnius

“Dear wife, I am healthy and I work as a tailor…kind regards and kisses” This chilling correspondence was sent from Nazi concentration camps

Shmuel Blasz was murdered at Auschwitz, but the original melody he wrote for the beloved Passover song lives on

In the early 1980s, Ilya Dvorkin came up with the idea of documenting the lives of Jewish communities throughout the vast territories of the Soviet Union

How the classic English novel spread throughout the Jewish world and its many languages

The Vienna-born Israeli historian Walter Grab was among the few to venture across the academic Iron Curtain in pursuit of his research…This is the story of his unique relationship with East German scholar Heinrich Scheel

Henry Ford was one of the most notorious American anti-Semites of the 20th century. His grandson, however, was an ardent Zionist. A collection of rare photos from Henry II’s little-known visit to Israel appears here for the first time.

In May of 1933, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, organized the burning of thousands of books in Berlin. Two scorched pages survived the burning and made their way to the National Library in Jerusalem.

For two and a half years, the weekly magazine “Yiddishe Bilder” aimed to become a Jewish version of Life magazine. The fall of 1939 was marked by both the Jewish holiday season and the guns of war…